News for HTML5 mobile developers: the remote DOM inspector tool weinre is no longer restricted to Webkit-based browsers and can be used with Internet Explorer 10 or Firefox, thanks to the community contribution with technical support from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Weinre (WEb INspector…

Here is a new plugin by MS Open Tech for Apache Cordova (PhoneGap): WebSQL. This plugin brings the ability to have a persistent SQL Database in a Cordova app using the same code across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. This video shows how this work and explains how it has made possible…

Redis is an open-source in-memory networked key/value store that has been very popular in the Linux community and is now available for Windows developers as well, via a Windows version from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. In this screencast, MS Open Tech lead evangelist Doug Mahugh covers how to…

MS Open Tech is contributing new features inspired by Windows in the popular Contacts plugin for Apache Cordova (a.k.a. PhoneGap). This video shows a short demo of how to use these new features to pick contacts from the native UI and how to enhance the contacts search results in your…

In this video tutorial, Ben Lobaugh of the Microsoft Open Technologies team demonstrates how to get started with Windows Phone 8 development using Apache Cordova, the free open source framework for creating mobile applications using standard APIs. Here's the quick list of steps to follow to get…

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. has contributed a patch to the popular open source C++ game engine Cocos2D-X to enable it on WinRT. This allows game developers and publishers already using Cocos2D-X to build games for Android and iOS to easily port their code to Windows Store. You can read…

Using tools such as Vagrant and Chef it is possible to ensure that everyone in your team, from design to development, from testing to deployment are using the same environment for their work. This makes it easier to manage and scale the whole process. In this screencast we show you how to get…

MS Open Tech is working closely with the Blink and Mozilla communities on the implementation of Pointer Events within Chrome and Firefox. Check-in's were recently accepted by the communities to add touch-action CSS property support in the code base of Firefox and Chrome, which is key to the Pointer…

OData is a web protocol that unlocks data silos to facilitate data access from browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and other scenarios. In this screencast, you'll see how easy it is to set up on OData service (deployed on Windows Azure) for an IBM DB2 database (running on…

Earlier in April, a new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 7 was made available to allow mobile web developer build apps for Windows Phone 7 that would integrate into the experience of the platform. The community has been hard at work and MS Open Tech helped them get this new jQuery Mobile theme…